“I’m not an editor, but based on friends’ experiences – I would try to have some pencils in your portfolio, just so you can show the quality of the art before and after inking – I know artists who have… Read More ›
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Quote Me On Portfolio Presentation: Matt Brooker
Small in Beautiful “Back when I was breaking into comics, I always used to present my work in an A4 ringbinder, and never had any problems as a result – in fact, at a crowded portfolio session, A4 binders are… Read More ›
What’s in that Portfolio? Do’s and Don’ts For Comic Artists
Here’s some guidance on what you should – and shouldn’t – include in your art portfolio when you’re showing it around at comic conventions. You might also like to take a look at my Editor’s View on what we like to see… Read More ›
Robert McKee’s Ten Commandments
Robert McKee’s Story Structure Seminar is an intensive three-day course that concentrates on screen writing. Most of the course is very applicable to comics writing. The course is well worth the cost and comes recommended by many people I know… Read More ›
What Comic Editors look for in a submission: Submitting Artwork
Although my comic creating guide is in the main primarily aimed at writers rather than artists, be aware of these principles…1) Have you submitted strip work to the title of your choice, as well as illustrations? In general, when you… Read More ›
Dez Skinn reveals the origins of Vulcan (the comic, not the Star Trek planet)
Longtime British comics fan and indie publisher David McDonald, whose projects under his Hibernia Comics imprint include One Eyed Jack and the Death of Valiant and a fab Doomlord strip collection, writes to tell us he is busy working on… Read More ›
What Comic Editors Look for in a Submission: Writing
1) Before submitting your work, check for spelling and grammar. Also, revise and polish your submission. Is it a story you’d want to read featuring your chosen hero? Have you written a story using characters you’re familiar with? Could you… Read More ›
Quote Me on Writing Comics: Mike Collins
“On writing, I always put pen to lined paper first and always. The computer always comes last. “I find when I write straight into the machine it results in ridiculous levels of verbosity, but if it’s all written long hand… Read More ›
Quote Me on Writing Comics: Dave Gibbons
Dave Gibbons Artist on The Watchmen, writer and artist on The Originals “I got involved because I loved comics ever since I could read; in fact, they may have been the reason that I wanted to read! I started by… Read More ›
Writing Comics: First Points
Comics is a very versatile medium that’s got possibilities that people have not even begun to touch… Alan Moore, interviewed in the fanzine Zarjaz #3 I take the same approach to writing a comic as writing a script; I flesh… Read More ›
Duncan Long’s Lesser Gods novel available in print
The paperback version of artist Duncan Long‘s science fiction novel Lesser Gods is now available, printed via Amazon’s Print On Demand service CreateSpace, with additional artwork not found in the ebook version. In Lesser Gods, wisecracking hacker Ralph Crocker finds… Read More ›
Image Duplicator exhibition opens this week at Orbital Comics
Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein currently has a show on at the Tate Modern. While the public is intimately familiar with his work, what they may be unaware of is that many of his images were directly “appropriated” from comic artists… Read More ›
2000AD partners witb Plastic Head for new t-shirt, tote-bag range
With summer fast approaching now is the perfect time to get yourself a funky fresh new look-or some new t-shirts and bags, at least! Plastic Head, in conjunction with 2000AD have a fabulous line in tees-long and short,hoodies and even… Read More ›
Comic Creator Ian Sharman pirates his own title
Not sure if you want to pre-order Marksosia’s Hero: 9 to 5 – Quietus because you haven’t read the first book? You want to read the first book but for any one of a million perfectly legitimate reasons you can’t… Read More ›
Judge Minty takes the Long Walk to YouTube success
Judge Minty is a fan film, inspired by the world of 2000AD‘s Judge Dredd, based on an old story from the comics and follows a Judge forced to take the ‘Long Walk’ into the irradiated, post-apocalyptic wasteland of ‘The Cursed… Read More ›
Latest Commandos feature first ever female lead for title
Art by Carlos Pino © and courtesy of DC Thomson Here’s details of the latest Commando war comics, on sale now in all good newsagents – and in a first for the title, Operation Nachthexen features their first-ever female lead… Read More ›
STRIP Magazine Issue 2 on sale for IPad now, print edition in newsagents tomorrow
Slightly ahead of its print release, the digital edition of STRIP: The Adventure Comics Magazine #2 is now on sale for iPad in the iTunes store. The print edition goes on sale in newsagents across the UK from tomorrow (Friday)…. Read More ›
Team MOBILE #3 audio comic on sale now from iTunes
The Team MOBILE #3 audio comic from ROK Comics is now on sale in the iTunes store for Apple devices. The adventures of Team M.O.B.I.L.E. continue! They are the undesirables, the no-hopers, misfits… the teenagers who don’t fit in, who… Read More ›
Breaking talent to be showcased at Kendal-based comic art festival’s Clock Tower
Some of the UK’s best emerging and established comic art talent will be showcasing their skills at the specially-dedicated Comics Clock Tower venue as part of Kendal’s The Lakes International Comic Art Festival in October, rubbing shoulders with the likes… Read More ›
Ranger Book Available From Bear Alley Books
The Rise And Fall Of The Trigan Empire is rightly considered one of the best British comic strips of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Written by Mike Butterworth and initially illustrated by Don Lawrence, it ran in Look and… Read More ›